x, 214 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Linda Clarke and Christopher Winch -- The role of the state in vocational education : a political analysis of the history of vocational education in the Netherlands / Anneke Westerhuis -- Vocational education in France : a turbulent history and peripheral role / Jean-Paul Géhin -- The German philosophy of vocational education / Wolf-Dietrich Greinert -- The emergence and reinforcement of class and gender divisions through vocational education in England / Linda Clarke -- School reform in America : can Dewey's ideas save high school vocational education? / Theodore Lewis -- Under American influence? : the making of modern German training in large Berlin enterprises at the beginning of the twentieth century / Georg Hanf -- Towards a new paradigm of vocational learning / Paul Hager -- 14-19 and lifelong learning : distinguishing between academic and vocational learning / Richard Pring -- Vocational education, work and the aims of economic activity / Christopher Winch -- Social justice and vocational education / John Halliday -- The multiple paradoxes of state power in the English education and training system / Ewart Keep -- New developments in continuing vocational education and training reform in France / Philippe Méhaut -- Workers' education in the twentieth-century British labour movement : class, union and role / John Holford

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